Louise Labe Biography

The biography of Louise Labe. This page has biographical information on Louise Labe, one of the best poets of all time. We also provides access to the poet's poems, best poetry, quotes, short poems, and more.

Louise Labé, (c. 1520 or 1522, Lyon – April 25, 1566, Parcieux), also identified as La Belle Cordière, (The Beautiful Ropemaker), was a female French poet of the Renaissance, born at Lyon, the daughter of a rich ropemaker, Pierre Charly, and his second wife, Etiennette Roybet. A recent book has argued that the poetry ascribed to her was a feminist creation of a number of French male poets of the Renaissance (see below).